The martyrs of the Kargil conflict in 1999 were remembered in Chennai on the occasion of Vijay Diwas with the three services of the Indian Armed Forces paying respects to soldiers who laid down their lives defending the country in the war.

Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh today paid tributes to the martyrs of Kargil war, and said that the sacrifices made and the valour exhibited by the soldiers would be remembered forever.

Army Chief General Dalbir Singh's visit to Kargil today was seen as one of the factors that contributed to some confusion on social media over the day India celebrates "Vijay Diwas" to remember martyrs who died in the 1999 border conflict.

Pakistan Army had planned a Kargil-type military operation much before the summer of 1999 when Benazir Bhutto was the prime minister but she stood her ground against the idea, a new book by a former diplomat says.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has said that the government will ask the Supreme Court if it can move the International Court of Justice on the brutal torture of Indian Army Captain Saurabh Kalia by Pakistani forces during the Kargil war.

The Indian Army has told the Supreme Court that it needs younger commanders, just like Pakistan and China, and that a policy for promotions to the rank of Colonel, introduced in 2009, should be left unchanged.

As the government named former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the Bharat Ratna, his friend and political fellow traveller LK Advani, who has lobbied for the award for him, said he deserved the country's highest civilian honour.

This was not first time that Mohammed Riaz and 30 other families of Jammu's Gujjar Basti have turned homeless. Back in 1999, during the Kargil war, all these families had been uprooted from their homes in RS Pura. They had rebuilt their lives on the banks of the Tawi river. Now, they have lost everything all over again.

The Congress today agreed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that Pakistan was waging a "proxy war" against India but attacked him at the same time over repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan since the NDA government came to power.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Leh this morning and will soon head to Kargil. He is the first prime minister to visit the high-altitude town since the Kargil war of 1999. This is the PM's second visit to Jammu and Kashmir since he took over as Prime Minister in May. Elections are due in the state later this year.

Himachal Pradesh has only four Lok Sabha seats, but the battle for these will be followed keenly, not least after the controversy over Narendra Modi's use of the phrase "yeh dil maange more" and reference to Kargil martyr Captain Vikram Batra while campaigning in the hill state.